To express the sense of the Senate concerning funding for children's graduate medical education.

1. Adds SEC. ____. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING CHILDREN'S GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION wherever appropriate

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   Inserted: SEC. ____. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING CHILDREN'S GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION.

   Inserted: (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--

   Inserted: (1) children's hospitals provide excellent care for children;

   Inserted: (2) the importance of children's hospitals extends to the health care of all children throughout the United States;

   Inserted: (3) making up only 1 percent of all hospitals, independent children's hospitals train almost 30 percent of all pediatricians and 50 percent of all pediatric specialists;

   Inserted: (4) children's hospitals provide over 50 percent of the hospital care in the United States for children with serious illness, including needing cardiatric surgery, children with cancer, and children with cerebral palsy; and

   Inserted: (5) children's hospitals are important centers for pediatric research and the major pipeline for future pediatric researchers.

   Inserted: (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that, for fiscal year 2004, children's graduate medical education should be funded at $305,000,000.

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